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studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … likelihood that students in upper secondary and tertiary school exit school in Argentina and Brazil, but not in Mexico. For the …
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-employed female workers in urban areas in three Latin American countries-Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica-after structural reforms … were introduced. The analysis covers pre- and post-reform years: in Argentina, 1988 and 1997, and in Brazil and Costa Rica … in Argentina and Brazil-that is, the adjusted wage differential between more educated and less educated women decreased …
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four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro …-cyclical in all countries up to the mid-1990s except in Chile. Wage cyclicality declines thereafter, especially in Brazil and …
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, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate … explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …
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crises of the 1980s, Russia in 1998, Argentina in 2001, and Greece in 2010. Based on the track record, the authors argue that …
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investigate how, and how successfully, Argentina and Brazil dealt with these problems in the 1990s. In both countries, sub … growth. Occasional stabilization plans failed within a few years. Then Argentina (in 1991) and Brazil (in 1994) introduced …
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liberalization gains that arise when examining tariffs alone. This paper examines the experiences of Argentina and Brazil during the …
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Inflation persists at moderate rates (15-30 percent) in all the countries that successfully reduced triple-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. The authors introduce types of theories of...
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The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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